January 5th, 2016110In June, the anti-government ranchers of Battle Mountain, Nevada, defied orders by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management by herding their cattle onto public acreage closed because of long-term environmental concerns. Their lawyers claimed...

January 5th, 2016254Ammon Bundy, son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, says that he and his best 150 domestic, fhome-grown terrorists don’t like the title of “terrorist.” The FBI has called the group that occupied the east Oregon federal wildlife refuge, “domestic terrorists.”

January 4th, 2016272When preparing for an ill-thought out, hypocritical takeover of a federal building, one must always remember to bring snacks. Dumbasses have to eat, you know? Apparently, however, some genius in the armed Oregon militant group dropped the ball...

April 29th, 2015122Baltimore Councilman Carl Stokes became frustrated during an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett when the host defended Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's categorization of the teenage rioters as criminals and thugs.
The riots began as a result of the death of yet another black man in police custody, Freddie Gray.
Before he...

April 23rd, 201574Michele Fiore, Tea Party darling, Cliven Bundy supporter, and alternative medicine crank, was forced to apologize after a debate got a bit too heated over her anti-fed bill on Tuesday.
Fiore's bill, Assembly Bill 408, would make it illegal for the federal government to own land in the state of Nevada without the permission of the...

April 23rd, 2015189There's an old saying about flies and fecal matter.
TPM reports that the "constitutional activists" protecting a gold mine in Oregon are preparing to protest the Bureau of Land Management's office on Thursday -- and a few members of Cliven Bundy's horde are going to be in town to help.
The co-owners of the Sugar Pine Mine, near...

April 14th, 2015109Here we go again.
At about this time last year, Cliven Bundy started making news. The rancher had stolen over $1 million from the United States taxpayer, and was heading for a showdown with the Bureau of Land Management.
While smart thinking on the part of the BLM avoided another Ruby Ridge or Waco, it emboldened these homegrown...

March 21st, 2015145Called "Nevadan's Resource Rights Bill," this ominous piece of ALEC-backed legislation is one step in a process that I outlined last year, and would prevent the Federal Government from owning land in Nevada.
If you were upset at ISIS for destroying the Sumerian statues in Iraq, wait until you see what Koch Capitalists do to Native...